Author:Du Toit, Melise; Wilms, Josefine M; Smit, GJF; Brink, WDate:Oct 2016Long-term forecasting of river runoff is important for climate scientists and hydrologists. By analysing the processes of a river basin characterized by measurable variables, an empirical data-driven model can be constructed. The support ...Read morecb
Author:Van Heerden, C; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2009The authors compare several different classifier combination methods on a single task, namely speaker age classification. This task is well suited to combination strategies, since significantly different feature classes are employed. Support ...Read more
Author:Mokgonyane, TB; Sefara, Tshephisho J; Manamela, MJ; Modipa, TIDate:Aug 2019Speaker recognition is a technique that automatically identifies a speaker from a recording of their speech utterance. Speaker recognition technologies are taking a new direction due to rapid progress in artificial intelligence. Research in ...Read more
Author:Rasheed, J; Wardak, AB; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Umer, T; Yesiltepe, M; Waziry, SDate:Oct 2022Granting smart device consumers with information, simply and quickly, is what drives quick response (QR) codes and mobile marketing to go hand in hand. It boosts marketing campaigns and objectives and allows one to approach, engage, influence, ...Read more
Author:Botha, GR; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2007The authors investigate the factors that determine the performance of text-based language identification, with a particular focus on the 11 official languages of South Africa, using n-gram statistics as features for classification. For a fixed ...Read more
Author:Keaikitse, M; Brink, W; Govender, NatashaDate:Nov 2014Detection and tracking are important components of many computer vision applications including automated surveillance. Object detection should overcome challenges such as changes in object appearances, illumination, and shadows. In our system, ...Read more
Author:Alimi, OA; Ouahada, K; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Rimer, SDate:Jan 2021Currently, ensuring that power systems operate efficiently in stable and secure conditions has become a key challenge worldwide. Various unwanted events including injections and faults, especially within the generation and transmission domains ...Read more
Author:Makinana, S; Malumedzha, T; Nelwamondo, Fulufhelo VDate:Jan 2015Iris recognition systems have attracted much attention for their uniqueness, stability and reliability. However, performance of this system depends on quality of iris image. Therefore there is a need to select good quality images before ...Read more
Author:Alimi, OA; Ouahada, K; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Rimer, S; Alimi, KOADate:Aug 2021Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems play a significant role in providing remote access, monitoring and control of critical infrastructures (CIs) which includes electrical power systems, water distribution systems, nuclear ...Read more
Author:Alimi, OA; Ouahada, K; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Rimer, S; Alimi, KOADate:Apr 2022Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems play pivotal role in the operation of modern critical infrastructures (CIs). Technological advancements, innovations, economic trends, etc. have continued to improve SCADA systems ...Read more
Author:Van Heerden, CJ; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2010In this article, the authors investigate the relationship between SVM hyperparameters for linear and RBF kernels and classification accuracy. The process of finding SVM hyperparameters usually involves a gridsearch, which is both time-consuming ...Read more